Count Basie and his Orchestra live at the North Sea Jazz Festival • 13-07-1979 • World of Jazz

The first concert of bandleader/pianist William ‘Count’ Basie and his Count Basie Orchestra at the North Sea Jazz Festival 1979 features great solos by bassist John Clayton and drummer Butch Miles.
Basie did two concerts at the festival, one month before his 75th birthday.
This is the first concert with some great solos by John Clayton, Butch Miles, Freddie Green, Sonny Cohn and Danny Turner

The Orchestra:
• Count Basie: piano
• John Clayton, bass
• Butch Miles, drums
• Freddie Green, guitar,
• Sonny Cohn, Pete Minger, Ray Brown, Paul Cohen, trumpet
• Bill Hughes, Mel Wanzo, Mitchell Wood Jr, Dennis Wilson, trombone
• Eric Dixon, Charlie Fowlkes, Kenny Hing, Bobby Plater, Danny Turner, saxophone
• Dennis Rowland, vocals

The repertoire:
Wind Machine
Shiny Stockings
John The III
There Will Never Be Another You
Good Time Blues
April In Paris
I Can't Get Started
In A Mellotone
Easy Living
9.20 Special
Good Mileage
Splanky

Recorded on 17 July 1979 at the Congresgebouw, The Hague, the Netherlands by AVRO TV

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